The Utah-based band Grizzly Goat sort of married into the Loveland family.

Nate Waggoner, who plays banjo, guitar, harmonica and bass for the band is married to 2009 Thompson Valley High School grad Kelly (Crowder) Waggoner. The pair met in Las Vegas after their families moved there.

"Neither of us are from Vegas, but we had a Vegas wedding," Waggoner said.

The band has set a goal to write a song for every state they have visited and hopes to reach all 50.

"The project started happening before we knew what we were doing," he said. The band realized they had few that were state-inspired so they decided to keep going.

Waggoner's wife inspired the Colorado song.

"I wrote that song when I was dating her," he said. So far, the band has 11-15 state-inspired songs. Some states they visit often, so they have a few songs focused on cities within the state.

"It's anything from hard grungy blues to campfire ballad to straight up traditional blue grass," Waggoner said. The band has been together in its current formation for three years. Each members plays no less than three instruments.

"To be quite honest, it offers a few headaches," he joked about what that provides them as musicians. When everything is plugged in on stage, it can be a hassle to pass instruments back and forth.

"The reason we still do it is we each play differently from each other," he said. Different styles lend themselves to different songs.

On top of being multi-instrumentalists, the band members share another trait. Separately, they all went on missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Faith plays a large role in their daily lives but the experience also offered a few practical lessons for traveling musicians.

"As a missionary, you spend long hours working and seeing no results," he said. It taught Waggoner to just keep working at what he wanted.

It also taught them how to pack lightly. For mission trips, you have to pack two suitcases with things for two years.

"Trying to pack every thing for three weeks in one suitcase, it's a lot easier," he said.